Related "Notre Dame Fighting Irish" Articles

Notre Dame is privileged. Has been for decades. The Fighting Irish have their own football television contract, with NBC. Their athletic director, Jack Swarbrick, helps govern the College Football Playoff, and they compete in the nation's premier...

Steve Addazio became Boston College’s football coach in 2013. He will face Virginia for the first time in 2017, Miami in 2018. His maiden road game versus the Hurricanes is scheduled for 2023, his inaugural home date with the Cavaliers in 2024.
Those...

BASEBALL:
American Legion:
Williamsburg Post 39 routed Hampton Post 31 19-2 Thursday night at Warhill District Park in Game 1 of the planned best-of-3 District Three tournament finals, and Hampton then forfeited Game 2.
The Wildflowers thus gained...

PINEHURST, N.C. -- ACC commissioner John Swofford joked Monday that he has mastered the art of talking, but not saying much, about a potential cable channel dedicated to the league. But during a one-on-one interview following his formal news conference,...

To be charitable, reporters voting at the ACC Football Kickoff have whiffed on their Coastal Division forecast three years running. During that span, 11 of 327 ballots, less than 4 percent, correctly picked the champion.
The last two years were even...

Jim Weaver, the visionary of all of Virginia Tech's major athletic upgrades over the past two decades, is gone, but he leaves a legacy that won't soon be forgotten.
Weaver, who served as Tech's athletic director from 1997-2013, died Thursday morning in...

Robert Banks hasn't resided in Hampton Roads for more than 30 years, but on each flight home he secures a window seat, the better to see the region's unique vistas, the better to reflect on all he learned here.
An all-state football player for Hampton...

Hours before starting for the United States in a Women’s World Cup semifinal Tuesday, former Virginia soccer midfielder Morgan Brian was named the ACC’s top female athlete for 2014-15.
The national Player of the Year as a junior and senior, Brian led the...

Five national championships in a school year are not extraordinary for the ACC. Since expanding in 2004, the league has averaged 4.5 titles, with a record eight in 2009-10.
But given which championships ACC teams won, and how the conference built upon...

Think the Republican presidential field is crowded? Well, consider the myriad candidates for the seminal moment of Virginia’s cinematic run to the national baseball championship.
Was it third baseman Kenny Towns’ diving, run-saving stop in Wednesday’s...

NORFOLK — With his six-figure salary and connections, Old Dominion football coach Bobby Wilder acknowledges that his story isn't the norm. But a few years back, he was a father trying to get his kid recruited.
Derek Wilder, a linebacker at Maury High,...

Were the ACC a publicly traded company, its stock would have soared Friday. The conference released its 2013-14 federal tax return – more on the bizarre timing of non-profit filings later – and the fiscal-year numbers far exceeded projections.
The ACC...

COLLEGES:
Women's track and field:
VCU senior Kiara Porter, a Tabb High graduate, secured the last spot in the NCAA 400-meter final with a semifinal time of 52.21 seconds Thursday in Eugene, Ore.
Among three heats, her time was eighth-fastest among the...

Early last summer, Virginia coach Brian O’Connor had a chance to reflect on the season with Connor Jones, who just finished a freshman season that hadn’t quite ended the way he’d hoped.
O’Connor ended up giving Jones the classic pep talk. He knew Jones...

Believe it or not, college football season is right around the corner.
OK, so there's 100 days left before a Thursday night slate of 16 games involving Football Bowl Subdivision teams kicks off Sept. 3. Michigan at Utah. North Carolina at South Carolina....

Academic fraud was central to sanctions levied on Syracuse men's basketball in March, and a similar stench continues to hover at North Carolina, which Friday received its notice of allegations from the NCAA. Moreover, according to a Big Ten position...

Atlantic 10:
When VCU's Darian Carpenter happily arrives a little late to play for the Peninsula Pilots, he'll do so as the Atlantic 10 tournament's Most Valuable Player and after competing with the Rams in the NCAA tournament.
Carpenter hit a...